Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.
Date	2025-10-20 18:36 +0000
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:58:30 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> Incidentally, last night I read some Wikipedia entry that mentioned that
> FORTRAN is actually still on rank 10(!) on some prominent list of used
> programming languages. (Sorry, I've no reference.)

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Fortran got kicked out of the top 10 by SQL this month. Last month was a 
bit surprising when Perl suddenly reappeared. When you get down to less 
than 2% there is quite a bit of movement. 

The first language I learned was FORTRAN IV in the mid '60s on a System 
360/30. Other than the university courses I've never written in the 
language. I have converted F77 code from NOAA's public domain stuff to C. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c

The utility does indeed convert Fortran 77 to C code that will compile but 
it is barely human readable and nothing you would want to maintain. The 
company I worked for originally had used F77 for some low level geo 
processing but that had been converted to C before my time.

I've mostly used the top 6 on the list except for Java. I had hopes for 
Java about 25 years ago but was disappointed. One of my first projects, an 
assembler for the Atmel AVR family, was poorly chosen since bit twiddling 
is almost impossible.

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Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 06:35 +0000
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 09:09 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-08 12:01 +0000
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 15:23 +0000
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 19:04 +0300
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 20:05 +0000
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 18:52 +0300
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-12-14 23:55 -0800
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:09 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:23 +0200
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 12:53 +0300
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 12:09 +0200
          Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 15:59 +0200
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 12:29 -0500
              Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 21:04 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 22:49 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-10 01:13 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 01:54 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 19:43 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-10 11:25 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 22:50 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 20:59 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 01:27 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-10 12:06 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-10 17:28 +0300
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-10 17:47 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 16:32 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-11 00:02 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-13 06:20 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 15:01 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 23:45 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-01-06 18:24 -0800
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-14 06:29 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-14 20:13 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-15 11:26 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-15 13:00 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-17 22:07 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-17 17:44 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-20 10:02 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 04:42 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 03:40 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-16 06:45 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-16 06:37 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-16 04:43 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-20 09:58 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-20 18:36 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 16:44 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 01:33 +0000
                Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:19 +0200
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:27 -0500
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-22 02:30 +0200
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-22 02:10 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 03:51 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 19:21 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:53 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:21 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-21 13:42 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-10-21 06:17 -0400
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:41 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:12 +0000
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 19:36 +0200
              Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 19:51 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 15:29 +0000
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:33 -0500
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 14:57 -0700
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-09 01:39 +0000
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 22:25 -0500
          Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 19:50 -0700
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 04:20 +0000
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-12-15 11:24 -0800
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 13:35 -0700
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 13:36 -0700
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-12-14 22:48 -0800

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